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Suffragan diocese Bomadi, Nigeria

Diocese of Bomadi

Bomadien(sis)

Latin rite diocese in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, established as an apostolic vicariate in 1996 and raised to a diocese in 2017. Bishop Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo leads the see, which is a suffragan of Benin City.

On the map

Esri
Bomadi, Nigeria, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1996
Catholics
37,682
Priests
62
Territory
13,140 km²

Parishes and churches

44 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo, M.S.P.

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The cathedral

Our Lady of the Waters Cathedral stands in Bomadi, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

Bomadi, in Delta State, is the episcopal see of this Latin Church diocese in Nigeria, known in Latin as Dioecesis Bomadiensis. It serves as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Benin City.